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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: Rachel Annand Taylor Matches Found: 90 A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart breaketh with felicity Last Line: "farewell, farewell, for evermore farewell!" Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation A PRAYER TO DEATH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god's archangel, tarriest thou so late? Last Line: Exquisite silences, forgotten rest. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Prayer; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A SONG OF GOLD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a nun within a white Last Line: "the night of white and gold?" Subject(s): Gold AGE INTERCEDES FOR YOUTH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For youth, who goes to war AN ART-LOVER TO CHRIST, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If these I love, what love have I for thee Last Line: For thou art noble; and I love them best. Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Love AN EARLY CHRISTIAN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt in the panther-fells Last Line: "and I cried in pain: ""o lord my god!" Subject(s): Christianity; Love - Complaints AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again / the world all gold Last Line: Never again! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness ARTHURIAN SONGS: 1. AVALON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King arthur lies alone Last Line: Is loyal quite? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Loneliness ARTHURIAN SONGS: 2. THE END, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen guenevere a-maying rode Last Line: In white clothes and in black. Subject(s): Convents; Courts & Courtiers; Nuns ARTHURIAN SONGS: 3. SARRAS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the town of sarras Last Line: Oh! Home to guenevere. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love ARTHURIAN SONGS: 4. GUENEVERE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God rest the lady guenevere Last Line: And for her soul pray we. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love Affairs; Prayer; Dead, The ASLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waxen taper faintly gleamed Last Line: His quiet vigil kept. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Marriage; Sleep; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT LAST, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all thy serenades are sung Last Line: Those be his own, his chosen part. AUTUMN-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roads are laid with cloth-of-gold Last Line: Love cometh to his own. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets AVE MARIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave, maria! I am tired Last Line: What it is to be so tired. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BODY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only the nest of spices BODY AND SOUL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit is a spotless doe that haunts Last Line: The accusation of her hunted eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul; Spirituality CALVARY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faint incense from the lily goes Last Line: (and where is calvary?) Subject(s): Calvary; Dreams; Nightmares CHILD OF JOY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In purple chambers I was born DEAD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I hearken at your grave Last Line: By that road. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The DEATH; MATER NOSTRA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is the kiss of motherhood. Why fear Last Line: Come, gather godhead from my nearer eyes. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DESIRE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I call thee? Hear the darkness calling Last Line: It is I. Subject(s): Desire; Love DIALOGUE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghost without: dost thou remember? Last Line: God, how I remember! Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory EARTHY LOVE IS OFFERED TO GOD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better to thee the heart of heathen fire Last Line: Thy vassal. Set his hands between thine own. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Praise ECSTASY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye that look on ecstasy Last Line: Into the bourg of night. END OF THE DUEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's an end to the duel long fought in the dark FALLEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of the lilies are lying Last Line: At the evenfall. Subject(s): Lilies Of The Valley; Nature; Shame FLAGELLANTS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is bleeding in thy sight Last Line: O love supreme, o love supreme!) Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The FOUR CRIMSON VIOLETS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Played sweet airs in the duchess' room FRAGMENT, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hath fetters on his feet Last Line: Love is at penance. Go apart and pray. Subject(s): Hearts; Love HIDDEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three nuns at owlet-call Last Line: Die by the virgin's knees. Subject(s): Convents; Death; Mourning; Nuns; Dead, The; Bereavement HYMN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT; WRITTEN DURING A FOREBODING OF CALAMITY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a terror in my heart Last Line: Spirit of god, thy knight am I. Subject(s): Faith; God; Love; Prayer; Belief; Creed IMPRESSION OF AUTUMN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One leaf and then another IN THE FIELDS OF LOVE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far apart in the fields of love JOYS OF ART, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As a dancer dancing in a shower of roses before her king Subject(s): Art And Artists LEFT IN LIFE: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have thee know the tears I weep Last Line: That thou shalt never know. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue? Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LOVE SPEAKETH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why hast thou given me these gyves to bear Last Line: It is not well, o lord, it is not well! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love; Prayer LOVE'S FOOL TO HIS LADY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's fool am I. To thine imperial court Last Line: Love's fool am I. Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Faithfulness; Constancy; Dejection LOVE'S HUMILITIES, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To think of thee, to think of thee! Last Line: O sweet, suffice it thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares MAY-MUSIC, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Lose the winter from thine heart, the darkness from thine eyes MIDNIGHT, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange powers unused like poison burn in me Last Line: "let them go by. It is not worth the pain." MIDSUMMER EVE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let silence with her long pale hands ravish the / violin Last Line: Oh! Elfin hands to-night. Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MONODY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou so sad, sweet soul Last Line: O love me, perfect soul! Subject(s): Hearts; Love NIGHT OBSCURE OF THE SOUL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the soul travails in the night obscure ORA PRO ME, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pray for me! Lo, here thy lover lies! Last Line: For me. Subject(s): Prayer OUTWORN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the winds and the steadfast stars Last Line: Of the love, and the pain, and sin? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Passion PILGRIM SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girdles of gold and of gramaraye Last Line: (but shall I not forget?) Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims PILGRIMS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pages of the perfect greek Last Line: When shall we quite forget? Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims PREFERENCE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will give you a gay blue cloak PREVISION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While all the dancing days that pass Last Line: So fare the sons of love? Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love PURIFICATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would go down to meet the infinite sea Last Line: O god, o god, shall I be purified? Subject(s): Shame; Sin QUESTION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the son of god go by Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice RACE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we began to run the race RENUNCIATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lifted rood thy days have hewn Last Line: For this, o love, for this! Subject(s): Divorce; Flowers; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REQUIESCAT, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I digged thy grave in my memory Last Line: Not sown of love, not sown of love. Subject(s): Death; Love - Unrequited; Memory; Dead, The ROSA MUNDI, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose of the world hangs high on a thorny / tree Last Line: For oh! Thou art sweet. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Thorns SAINT MARY OF THE FLOWERS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meet me at saint mary of the flowers Last Line: Meet me at saint mary of the flowers'. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Love; Saints; Graveyards; Dead, The SLEEP-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of / sleep Last Line: Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep! Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SPRING (1), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love as the resurrection angel, goes Last Line: Will never staunch the tears of mortal eyes. Subject(s): Angels; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones SPRING (2), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the green-kindling hawthorn hill Last Line: Girdled the glad white-flowering hill. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Temples; Graveyards; Mosques SURRENDER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strove, and strove with fate. I leave my throne Last Line: My once-imperial soul! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE BRIDE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All veiled in white and silver Last Line: The red red roses grew. Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Flowers; Love; Roses THE COMMON PRAYER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hear the secret word I cannot say Last Line: "say: ""throughly do I know thee. Peace, be still!" Subject(s): Death; Love; Peace; Prayer; Dead, The THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of herodias, / she danced before the king Last Line: In that abysmal sleep! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Sleep THE END OF THE WAY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I seen by the winding way Last Line: Jesu, I am tired. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Love - Complaints THE HOSTEL OF SLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the hostel of sleep. Come in, come in! Last Line: As you lie at rest in the chamber blue. Subject(s): Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE IMMORTAL HOUR, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Still as great waters lying in the west Last Line: Is all the changing dream of thee and me. Subject(s): Immortality THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 1. REGRET, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How was I to know Last Line: "rot on,"" god saith, ""within the foss of death." Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Regret; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 2. THE KNIGHTS TO CHRYSOLA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crazed for you, aspired and fell for you Last Line: Chrysola! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Love Affairs; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 3. WINTER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the snow, / a frozen barefoot penitent I go Last Line: My sins are scarlet. She was white as snow. Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Snow; Winter; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 4. THE KNIGHT BEAUCLERC TO THE LADY GLORIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that the queen with all her maids came / singing Last Line: Farewell! Farewell! But I have loved you best. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Dreams; Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Roses; Nightmares THE PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you that so strangely woke Last Line: In my land. THE QUEEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen sinned in a dream Last Line: The great gold curls of the queen.) Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE ROMAN ROAD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bury me close to the roman road Last Line: And still is the riding sweet. Subject(s): Graves; Roads; Tombs; Tombstones; Paths; Trails THE SUPREME WISH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God give you joy, I said,-and joy you had Last Line: O sweet, god give you rest! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Rest; Wishes; Dead, The; Paradise THE VANITY OF VOWS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soul of many longings entered late Last Line: And, ere the morning quickened, she was dead. Subject(s): Vanity THE WAITING ANGEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are leaning through the roses Last Line: Surely I shall rise and go. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE WATER O' WEARY WELL', by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been, sweetheart, sweetheart THREE FATES: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, follow fast the star Last Line: The couch is flowered for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Future Life; Rest; Nightmares; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THREE FATES: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O masquer, are you loth love sleep Last Line: To make the bed for you. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Destiny THREE FATES: 3, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lover, for the maze of doom Last Line: The sleep is much the same! Subject(s): Love; Sleep TO FORTUNE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am old, all things I will endure Last Line: The grey friend sweet. Subject(s): Fortune; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea! All the beauty of sorrow, like a crown Last Line: Immortals thralled for ever to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal beauty and immortal pain Last Line: And how to loose he hath himself forgot. Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Immortality; Louvre, Paris; Love; Pain; Passion; Suffering; Misery TO THE HEAD OF A GREEK BOY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since you are beautiful, for your proud head UNKNOWN SWORD-MAKER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the anvil of my heart UNREALISED, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet, not yet, beloved! Last Line: Forget, forget, my dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Nightmares WEDDING OF THE REDEEMED PRINCESS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cast wide, cast wide the brazen gates WHOM THE GODS LOVE-DIE YOUNG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: How wild were they, at break of day |
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